Word: musical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corcoran, begging Moley to help him draft a 1936 campaign speech for the President : "You write the music. He only sings...
...things have made Chancellor Bow man one of the most talked-about U. S. educators: his football team and his (still unfinished) 42-story Cathedral of Learning, which he has been building these 18 years. To picture this cathedral to the architect, he played the Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre on a phonograph. "There you have it," he said. "Climax rising above climax." As Dr. Bowman's Cathedral rose, so did his highhandedness. He fired liberal teachers right and left; during the purge 25 walked the plank, 59 quit. When the American Association of University Professors...
Back home in Manhattan, Sergeant Smith was soon in the big time, playing at Reisenweher's (as did the famed Original Dixieland Jazz Band), accompanying the great Mamie Smith on Okeh records, traveling the Keith Circuit with a band. Prohibition led him prosperously underground, and lovers of hot music flocked to hear him at Harlem's Pod's and Jerry's saloon as eagerly as early Christians to their interdicted devotions. So eminent a white jazz player as Saxophonist Bud Freeman has since declared him to be the best groove pianist a band could have...
...besides a bowl of red ink. The San Francisco Fair wasn't doing too well until Benny Goodman and cohorts arrived on the scene. And we doubt very much that Mr. Whalen has been booking swing bands for the New York Fair because he likes their brand of "jump" music...
...local music possibilities, the Raymor Ballroom, in addition to its usual large supply of doeith young women, will offer some really good bands. Red Nichols is there now...The Roseland State right around the corner, will continue to bring in big names. But their poster advertising is so poor that one finds out about Glenn Miller's orchestra not earlier than two days after it is gone . . . No word ensues from the Southland, traditional hangout for Harvard men. It is to be hoped, however, that they do as well as last year in giving Boston a chance to hear music...